The bigger scandal and crime is not the sex; it's accepting $30,000 plus in free gifts. That is a firing offense for US government employees and I am guessing it's the same in the UK.

Yet another accusation without any evidential basis. The Daily Mail started this 'Mr Wynn waves $30k hotel bill for Harry', despite the fact that their 'source' at the hotel admitted that they hadn't seen Harry's bill as only very senior management could see it due to the fact that it was password protected (standard for very well-known people in hotels). So, this person neither knew how big the bill was, nor whether it was paid for or not. Understanding that his guests have a right to confidentiality, Mr Wynn himself has point blank refused to comment.

Now, even if Harry did get a freebie from Mr Wynn, he's not doing anything that his close family members have not done. During her Diamond Jubilee Tour of Britain earlier this year, the Queen and DoE stayed onboard the luxury yacht Leander, owned by their good friend Sir Donald Gosling. This yacht usually costs £286,000 to rent for a single week, the Queen paid nothing.

Royals are given gifts all the time by rich people who want to have some kind of association with them. It's hardly news.

There are a lot of double standards in this, not least from me, I have to admit.

Yes, I believe Harry will get away with that and even be even more liked by many. Not least those who have tried to wake up after a binge only to learn about the embarrassing things we have done.
Even, which is the worst thing I can imagine here, pictures of Harry having actual intercourse may surface.

Okay, William. No way he would get away with this! He is the next heir, this is out of character for him and most importantly, he is married. - These sorts of escapades are now behind him.
The same thing will happen with Harry, I believe, once he is getting seriously involved with a girl again. Then he won't get such a break. And once he gets married, the hammer will fall.
Apart from that I'd estimate Harry has a five year period more before he is considered too old for this. If he does this in his mid-thirties, he won't get such a break either.

Harry in particular gets away with this, partly because it's in line with his more "wild" character, but also very much because he has earned credits. He has served in the frontline in Afghanistan and soldiers are allowed, and feel they deserve, to party hard once in a while.
But he has also shown his compassionate and charming side, when on the job. Africa, the West Indies.
Had he been more of an idler/lazy or just less charming, he would have gotten the hammer.

Eugenie and Beatrice and most other princesses I can think of would also get the big hammer, no matter how much credit they have. In this unfair world women/girls are judged harsher than men in such situations.

Not to mention if he was someone who was dating a prince/ess or engaged to be married into a royal family. He would get the public boot in the behind at once!
Which is why you cannot compare Harry and say Sofia Hellquist, it's two completely different standards. Harry is already a royal, a man and a bachelor. Sofia is a woman, an outsider and very much involved with a prince.

My question in all this is: Where were Harry's friends? Why didn't a good friends step in? As good friends do.
Whoever took these photos had a front seat space and it's difficult to hide it, if you are taking pictures with a mobile. These pics are too good to be taken from the very back and clandestinly. Someone took his/her time to get the right pictures. Why didn't a good friend step in and knock that person on the head?
Because they were just as drunk and weren't genuine friends anyway.
I don't blame Harry as much. We can all, well, must of us, get drunk and do something monumentally silly. That's why good friends keep an eye out for you.

I think after this little episode, it would be good for Henry to really evaluate the company he keeps. As my health ed. teacher said, 'it's great to have friends that you can party with, but once you grow up, you realize that you want more in your friends than just drinking buddies'. Even though it's not anyone's job to anyone else's keeper, for someone in Henry's situation, it would be great to have someone that would always have your back. However, what I think Henry really needs to realize is that no one will take better care of him than he himself. If he doesn't use better judgement, things like this are bound to happen even when he's in this mid-thirties.

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My question in all this is: Where were Harry's friends? Why didn't a good friends step in? As good friends do.
Whoever took these photos had a front seat space and it's difficult to hide it, if you are taking pictures with a mobile. These pics are too good to be taken from the very back and clandestinly. Someone took his/her time to get the right pictures. Why didn't a good friend step in and knock that person on the head?
Because they were just as drunk and weren't genuine friends anyway.
I don't blame Harry as much. We can all, well, must of us, get drunk and do something monumentally silly. That's why good friends keep an eye out for you.

Presumably because if they did so this story becomes even bigger and more potentially damaging. You can just see the headlines - 'Friend of Prince Harry arrested for assault while trying to confiscate naked girl's mobile phone'. This becomes not just embarrassing, but a crime scene, with Harry summoned to testify in court (which in the US means it would be shown live on TV), having to answer all sorts of uncomfortable questions, then probably facing civil suits for enormous damages. That's all assuming that it would be one of Harry's friends getting arrested, not Harry himself.

I can only assume that Harry and his friends were already well on their way to being drunk when they invited those people to their room. Apparently they were drinking 'designer' cocktails which are incredibly deceptive as they're deliberately made to NOT taste like alcohol, and you can't really know how much alcohol you're consuming. I'm teetotal now, but in my time I've had a few alcoholic cocktails that I would've sworn had no or very little alcohol in them because they just tasted like exotic fruit drinks. After a couple I realised that wasn't the case.

"Knocking on the head" was a figure of speech.
I of course meant why didn't some friend stop X from taking pictures? Alternatively kicking that person out the door? No one would have barked, if the phone had been confiscated alternatively the memory deleted.
Taking pictures of a person in an embarrassing situation in a private area and publishing these photos, perhaps even earning money from them, would be a very serious breach of the laws of privacy in many if not most countries and that person would face a countersuit you wouldn't believe!

What would the person do? Go to the police?
"They stole me phone! Assault! I want it back!
Well, I did take pictures of a foreign dignitary in a private hotelroom, without him knowing it....
Well, I intended to publish them, that would be such a hoot...
And, ehh, also sell the photos and earn money from them...
Why are you tearing up my complaint"?

What if this story had broken the weekend before the Jubilee? Or before the Olympics? Would Harry have seemed like a lad having a bit of harmless fun? Or would he have seemed like a jerk who gave no thought whatsoever to the feelings of his family and his country?

Look, I like Harry- who doesn't? He seems lovable, warm, good at what he does (what he's supposed to do, that is!). But he put himself into a position that makes him look like an insensitive jerk who only gives a damn about his own wants and needs. Just because he can have whatever he wants doesn't mean he should have it. No respect for anyone...

I think the only thing that took place in that hotel room was a gigantic orgy of stupidity.

As I said, Harry is not sweating any of this. When you are rich and privledged, you pretty much know you can do these ridiculous inane things, and it will be swept aside, excused, etc etc.

I don't think anymore 'revelations' will come out. The press is just doing what they always do. I will say this though, Harry was lucky, really really lucky that this did not turn out nastier, and that all he had to deal with after the dust settled was his derrier splashed across the internet and tabloids.

I think the only thing that took place in that hotel room was a gigantic orgy of stupidity.

As I said, Harry is not sweating any of this. When you are rich and privledged, you pretty much know you can do these ridiculous inane things, and it will be swept aside, excused, etc etc.

I don't think anymore 'revelations' will come out. The press is just doing what they always do. I will say this though, Harry was lucky, really really lucky that this did not turn out nastier, and that all he had to deal with after the dust settled was his derrier splashed across the internet and tabloids.

Agreed. ( I hope for his sake nothing more comes out.) And as Muhler and Daria_S pointed out, it would serve Prince Harry well to evaluate his friends and his "wingman" security guard. They don't seem to bring out his better nature or have his best interest at heart. They just seem to encourage his delinquency. He needs to keep better company and make wiser choices.

Agreed. ( I hope for his sake nothing more comes out.) And as Muhler and Daria_S pointed out, it would serve Prince Harry well to evaluate his friends and his "wingman" security guard. They don't seem to bring out his better nature or have his best interest at heart. They just seem to encourage his delinquency. He needs to keep better company and make wiser choices.

I don't know about anyone else, but I have witnessed many instances in my life where a 'friend' will encourage a bad habit for his/her own personal benefit. I think some of Henry's 'mates' could be all about him partying and doing what he's doing, because it allows them to live the 'high life'. So what if he gets in trouble? It's not necessarily their reputation that will get ruined. Sure, they may get a negative mention in the press, but that will be all. Maybe Henry is the type that only sees the good in people, and won't even consider his so-called 'friends' having ulterior motives, but I won't be surprised if on some level it were true. In terms of whether or not Henry used any hard core drugs that may (or may not) have been available in that hotel room, there's such thing as being guilty by association. Think about it; he's surrounded by people that could have possibly used those drugs, so who's to say that at some point he won't touch them too? I have said this in the other thread, but a lot can be said by just looking at the company one keeps, and this is not saying anything good about Henry, I'm sorry to say. Again, does this make him evil/bad/heartless? No, but it does reiterate the fact that he lacks the ability to make mature adult decisions.

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I´m starting to feel sorry for Harry in advance if there is a video. But again, it is his fault who he parties with and how. First the party in Necker, then Vegas, how long? 4,5 days? How does one keep up with it? I suspect how.
And he should get rid of some toxic friends. I doubt that Skippy guy pays for the trip and luxury hotel, he´s there because he has a famous "friend". And the one that took a picture of him laying in the sand in Necker and published it on facebook. Those are not friends.

All this this much more distressing because it´s Harry. The guy exudes charm and goodness and I cannot imagine how embarrassed he should be. He doesn´t deserve this, but again he shares the fault.

Evidence would suggest that posters are losing the plot on this thread!

Question: How do you know that Harry treated anyone, let alone the girls invited to the party, as objects.

Answer: For all the pontificating . . . you do not!

Please at least try to be objective and preface your opinions with IMO.

I was not at the party, so I did not witness all of Prince Harry's behavior. I am looking at the facts I have and making the assumption that he was treating those girls as objects. Why? Because, he invited complete strangers to his private apartments to participate in what I view to be very personal activity. I assume from my life experience that he was not interested in their intellect or in forming actual new friendships with these women. It appears from the circumstances (a whole week of them) that what he was interested in was "having fun." It seems to me that he was seeking a certain experience for himself and these girls were convenient to creating that experience. That is why I feel that Prince Harry was treating those girls as objects.

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A woman who partied with Prince Harry claimed she kissed the young Royal in a naked 'drunken fumble' during his now-infamous night in Las Vegas. Blonde Carrie Reichert revealed how she was alone with Prince Harry in his hotel room for up to 20 minutes during a party in Nevada's Sin City last month. The Royal was completely naked during their tryst, she claims, while she stripped down to a string bikini.

I'll refrain from expressing my opinion about Carrie Reichert apart from this one comment: she is no lady - and I don't mean her social class.

She is a lady - there is no reason to disparage her. She does not owe Harry anything. It's her life experience to share if she wants to.
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I beg to differ: I may be old-fashioned but a woman who goes to press with intimate details about a third party is no lady in my book.
If it were the other way round, if Harry chose to reveal such details about a woman, I would have said the exact same thing about him - that he is not gentleman.

It wasn't a third party - it was her personal experience. Memoirs do this all the time - though usually about people the author actually knew well. In this case, Harry allowed himself the most random sort of assignation - the potential consequences of doing so with someone he did not know should have been obvious to him.

You make a fair point about Harry - it is considered ungentlemanly to kiss-and-tell on a woman. Another aspect of that pesky double-standard.

I beg to differ: I may be old-fashioned but a woman who goes to press with intimate details about a third party is no lady in my book.
If it were the other way round, if Harry chose to reveal such details about a woman, I would have said the exact same thing about him - that he is not gentleman.

You're not old fashioned, you were simply brought up with good manners.